From Dung to Coffee Brew With No Aftertaste

[lsanderson]

A civet farm in Liwa, a town in Sumatra, where the catlike animals eat coffee cherries. Their droppings contain coffee beans fermented in their stomachs.
By NORIMITSU ONISHI
Published: April 17, 2010

SAGADA, the Philippines — Goad Sibayan went prospecting recently in the remote Philippine highlands here known as the Cordillera. He clambered up and then down a narrow, rocky footpath that snaked around some hills, paying no heed to coffins that, in keeping with a local funeral tradition, hung very conspicuously from the surrounding sheer cliffs. More

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[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Photographs of this, I didn't need.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I'm as big a gourmand as anyone, but I've got to say the notion of civet coffee triggers a big ol' DO NOT WANT response. Not to mention musings on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire ...